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Love these colors!

If only these colors were this saturated...ORVIS!

David Vance Shoots ORANGE!

Check out more of DAVID VANCE and model JAKE HOLLINGS rocking the best of the color orange!

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June 30 | iCloud Cometh

Remember dot-mac? Remember MobileMe? Here comes iCloud. Prepare to have Apple shove your computer's contents into some nebulous iCloud, empty the contents of your wallet, and manage to shove your head up your own ass, all in one day. Don't say you weren't warned. They have a pattern with this stuff. Remember MobileMe being down for 3 days? Try to nail a cloud to the wall, and you'll realize how much sense all this makes. But Apple will say "we warned you over a year ago..." You mean they greased my backside for one year, made me spend more money, fixed what wasn't broke, and, surprise! surprise! are catering to the iPhone and iPad generation. Leaving us computer folks with our heads in the proverbial cloud.

Versus.The Sacred Heart of JesusDavid Vance v Bernard Lynch

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Hey A&F Girls...wait til you age!

Congrats to Esteban Miguel!The Orvis Fly Guy!

Here's a great story, very well-written, and worth a read, whether or not you fish. Happy 20th Anniversary to my fave couple!


And check out CASTING FOR RECOVERY, a great organization for women (and their friends) with breast cancer.

Guns are trouble. End of story.Treyvon Martin's Father.

No matter how you square it, guns are trouble.

Check out any movie. The minute a gun makes an appearance, you know nothing happy is going to be happening.

Born June 14 | White TrashThe Donald | Pretty Girl

Love the shoes, Clarice.

Born this day in 1904 | Margaret Bourke-WhiteLIFE's 1st Female Photographer

The United States

The Fort Peck Dam; The first photo on the cover of LIFE Magazine

Prisoners at Büchenwald, 1946

Dr. Kurt Lisso, Leipzig's city treasurer, and his wife and daughter after taking poison to avoid surrender to U.S. troops, Leipzig, 1945

German civilians made to face their nation's crimes, Buchenwald
1945

Bourke White, Margaret
American, 1904-1971

Margaret Bourke-White (June 14, 1904 – August 27, 1971) was an American photographer and photo journalist. She was born in the Bronx, New York, to Joseph White (who came from an Orthodox Jewish family) and Minnie Bourke, the daughter of an Irish ship's carpenter and an English cook; she was a Protestant.

Margaret grew up in Bound Brook, New Jersey.

In 1922, she began studying herpetology at Columbia University, where she developed an interest in photography after studying under Clarence White. In 1925, she married Everett Chapman, but the couple divorced a year later. After switching colleges several times (University of Michigan, Purdue University in Indiana, and Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio), Margaret graduated from Cornell University in 1927. A year later, she moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where she became an industrial photographer at the Otis Steel Company.

In 1929, she accepted a job as associate editor for Fortune magazine. In 1930, she became the first Western photographer allowed into the Soviet Union. She was hired by Henry Luce as the first female photojournalist for Life magazine.

Her photographs of the construction of the Fort Peck Dam were featured in the first issue, dated November 23, 1936, including the cover. This cover photograph became such an iconic image that it was featured as the 1930s representative to the United States Postal Service's Celebrate the Century series of commemorative postage stamps.

During the mid-1930s, Bourke-White, like Dorothea Lange, photographed drought victims of the Dust Bowl. Bourke-White was married to novelist Erskine Caldwell from 1939 to 1942, and together they collaborated on You Have Seen Their Faces (1937).

Bourke-White was the first female war correspondent and the first woman to be allowed to work in combat zones during World War II.

During the 1950s, Bourke-White was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, and she died in Connecticut, aged 65.

The Margaret Bourke-White Collection at Syracuse University Overview of the Collection
Creator:	Bourke-White, Margaret, 1904-1971.
Title:	Margaret Bourke-White Papers
Dates:	1863-1984,
Inclusive Dates:	1928-1964
Quantity:	76.0 linear ft.
Abstract:	Biographical material, correspondence, writings, and memorabilia. Memorabilia consists of financial, legal, and printed materials, photographic equipment, scrapbooks, and miscellany. Bourke-White's photographs and negatives comprise a separate collection, also located in Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library.
Language:	English
Repository:	Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 http://scrc.syr.edu

Born this day in 1961 | {Boy} George O'DowdSinger, Chanteuse

Here's a link to Culture Club's work located at 
BURNING THE GROUND.

GOSSIP!!!

This photograph by Richard Avedon was actually taken at DAVID VANCE'S first studio in Opa-Locka, (Miami), Florida. Days before the shooting, Avedon's assistant(s) came down and painted the entire background cyclorama in (Richard Avedon's) WHITE paint, specially mixed for all of Richard Avedon's portraits. That ensured consistency with his lighting and the tonality of the background. David actually told me he knew God had a sense of humor when Boy George stepped out of the limousine and was something like 6' tall (and Tom Cruise is 5'7").

Much later, I started my tenure as David's assistant, and one day I was told "to paint the cyclorama." I don't paint. Ever. I wear paint. But, as every assistant knows, you do what you are told, and do it to the best of your abilities. So I was pointed in the direction of several 5 gallon buckets of "white" paint.

After I finished painting the cyclorama (which is like getting lost in a white cloud on acid) I was wearing most of the paint, especially on my sneakers. All OVER my sneakers. At that point, I was told the paint I used was "white – Richard Avedon white." And I was so thrilled, I never cleaned my sneakers or jeans.

So for several years, I had my "favorite" sneakers, which were splashed with "Richard Avedon white."

Freddie Mercury was actually asked in the only full interview he gave years before his death what he thought of the "new singers" and who he thought would "really do something." George Michael's name came up and Freddie said something about "the old fag's already done a duet with Aretha Franklin, and beat me to it" but then he went on at length to say "Boy George is very good. And if he doesn't get messed up in all this (the lifestyle), he'll really go somewhere.

I don't think Freddie figured it'd be jail.

Remember.

Richard Avedon White!!!

The Vault | MiamiSouth Beach | T-Dance mid90s

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MADONNA's MDNA EPK | 31 May 2012Tel Aviv, Israel

The Screaming Room | 2009The Collector

Aural Sex | 1978Grace Jones | Do Or Die

This Night in 1968 | Rosemary's Water Broke

The Vault | MiamiFigure Studies 1990s

The Vault | Miami [T-Dance] Late 1990s

Versus.Manuel Alvarez Bravo v Bernard M Lynch Jr

The Vault | Miami [early 1990s]Before they were famous...

Restraints

The Vault | Student Work1978 – 1982The Boys of 507 Euclid

Tim, Kelly, Marcello, Randy

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